Monument record 16105 - Flood gates and sluice bridge, Weaver Navigation, Vale Royal

<1> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1139184 (Web Site). SCH6528.

Grade II Listed flood gates and sluice bridge. C.1890. Red sandstone ashlar with cast iron bridge. Two round arches of cast iron set between rusticated ashlar piers. Downriver devation: lateral and central cut waters supporting ramped buttresses with piers above which have limestone dressings. Ashlar springers to the cast iron bridges from which the sluice gates are suspended.

<2> British Waterways, 1998, River Weaver Navigation: Photographic Record of the Restoration Works to Vale Royal Upper Sluices, R4835 (Client Report). SCH9772.

A photographic record was undertaken in 1997-8 for restoration works carried out at Vale Royal Upper Sluices on the navigable section of the River Weaver Navigation between Frodsham and Northwich. These works formed part of a major project to refurbish and modernise the sluice structures.